Microbial deracemization of α-substituted carboxylic acids: control of the reaction path
摘要:
A novel approach to preparing optically active alpha-substituted carboxylic acids using the whole cells of Nocardia diaphanozonaria JCM 3208 is described. When 2-phenylthiopropanoic acid and 2-methyl-3-phenylpropanoic acid were subjected to the reaction under aerobic conditions, the oxidation reaction proceeded preferentially rather than deracemization of these substrates. Herein, we report the design of reaction conditions to increase the deracemization activity in preference to oxidation reactions. In addition, we have successfully detected a metabolic intermediate in the reaction mixture of 2-methyl-3-plienylpropanoic acid, which indicates that the deracemization is a competitive reaction against the beta-oxidation pathway of fatty acid metabolism. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Biocatalytic resolutions of methyl sulfinylacetates fford sulfoxides (R)-(1) - (6) in very high optical yields; the products have been used in a systematic study of the “SPAC” reaction, an asymmetric synthesis of γ-hydroxy-α,β-unsaturated esters.
Biocatalytic resolutions of sulfinylalkanoates: a facile route to optically active sulfoxides
作者:Kevin Burgess、Ian Henderson、Kwok Kan Ho
DOI:10.1021/jo00030a044
日期:1992.2
Two methods are presented for kinetic resolutions of compounds containing ester and sulfoxide functionalities (sulfinylalkanoates). In the first a crude lipase preparation from Pseudomonas sp. (K10) mediates enantioselective hydrolysis of these esters in an aqueous environment. The second method uses the same lipase preparation to promote enantioselective transesterifications with alcohols in hexane. Both procedures are suitable for preparation of sulfinylalkanoates where the ester and sulfoxide groups are separated by one or two methylene units (sulfinylacetates and sulfinylpropanoates) but compounds with three methylene "spacer groups" (sulfinylbutanoates) are not substrates for the lipase under either set of conditions.
BURGESS, KEVIN;HENDERSON, IAN, TETRAHEDRON LETT., 30,(1989) N8, C. 3633-3636